Conferences and Events
Hosted Seminar Series
Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis Seminar Series
A bimonthly lecture series, held on first and third Thursdays during the academic year at 11:00 a.m., featuring scientists whose research interests complement those of departmental faculty.
Work-in-Progress Seminar
A bimonthly forum, held on second and fourth Thursdays at 11:00 a.m., for students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty to present their ongoing research and gain valuable feedback from colleagues.
WIP Schedule
(2nd & 4th Thursdays, 11:00 a.m.)
09/14/2023
SWI/SNF, eRNA and enhancers - Oh my!
Blaine Bartholomew, Ph.D.
09/28/2023 - Canceled to enable attendance at the
"Understanding Our Breakthroughs" seminar
10/12/2023
Title to be announced
Nidhi Sahni, Ph.D.
10/26/2023
Title to be announced
Ishita Rehman, Ph.D. (Santos Lab)
11/09/2023
Title to be announced
Ninh Le (Ting Lab)
11/30/2023
Title to be announced
Candy Chen, Ph.D. (Dent Lab)
12/14/2023
Open
01/11/2024
Title to be announced
John Horton, Ph.D. (Cheng Lab)
01/25/2024
Title to be announced
Aastha Pandy, Ph.D. (Cole Lab)
02/08/2024
Title to be announced
Taiping Chen, Ph.D.
02/22/2024
Title to be announced
Rongjie Fu, Ph.D. (Xu Lab)
03/14/2024
Title to be announced
Fernando Benavides, D.V.M, Ph.D.
03/28/2024
Title to be announced
Srinivas Animireddy, Ph.D. (Bartholomew Lab)
04/11/2024
Title to be announced
Joya Chandra, Ph.D.
04/25/2024
Effectors and Effects of Arginine Methylation
Yalong Wang, Ph.D. (Bedford Lab)
05/09/2024
Title to be announced
Briana Santo, Ph.D. (Ting Lab)
05/23/2024
Title to be announced
Yungxiang Mu, Ph.D. (McBride Lab)
06/13/2024
Title to be announced
Karen Vasquez, Ph.D.
The University of Texas at Austin
06/27/2024
Title to be announced
Tabish Hussain, Ph.D. (Aldaz Lab)
07/11/2024
Title to be announced
Bin Liu, Ph.D.
07/25/2024
Title to be announced
Leilei Shi, Ph.D. (Bedford Lab)
Related Seminar Series
Graduate Program in Genetics & Epigenetics (G&E) Monthly Student Seminar Series (GEM)
Held on the second Thursday of the month at 12:00 p.m., this series is organized and presented by students from G&E labs. Most GEM seminars feature research talks by two students.
Center for Cancer Epigenetics (CCE) Seminars
Many departmental faculty members are also members of the CCE, which has historically held bi-weekly seminars on Fridays at 11:00 a.m. during the academic year.
Enjoy Science Seminar Series
The Enjoy Science seminars highlight the research of faculty across MD Anderson and is held on 1st and 3rd Thursdays at 10:00 a.m.
John H. Blaffer Lecture Series
The Blaffer Lecture series, organized by the Department of Genetics, is held on Tuesdays at 12:00 p.m. during the academic year. It features prominent researchers from a variety of fields.
Conferences & Retreats
Graduate Program in Genetics & Epigenetics (G&E) Retreat
The next G&E Retreat will be held October 27-28, 2023
Camp Allen, Navasota, Texas
Center for Cancer Epigenetics Annual Spring Retreat
The most recent CCE retreat was held May 12-13, 2023
Round Top Festival Institute, Round Top, Texas
Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis Seminar Speakers, Fall 2023
Seminars will be held on Thursdays at 11:00 a.m., unless noted otherwise
Thursday, September 7, 2023
Systems epigenetics of childhood cancer
Benjamin Stanton, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, Center for Childhood Cancer, Abigail Wexner Research Institute, Nationwide Children's Hospital
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Replication stress response, cancer and ubiquitin signaling
Bin Wang, Ph.D.
Professor, Genetics
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Thursday, October 5, 2023
Protein arginine methylation in cell signaling and cancer
Wenjian Gan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Medical University of South Carolina
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Title to be announced
John Ray, Ph.D.
Assistant Member, Benaroya Research Institute;
Affiliate Assistant Professor, University of Washington,
Department of Immunology
Thursday, November 2, 2023
Title to be announced
Douglas Fowler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Genome Sciences
University of Washington
College of Engineering and UW Medicine
Thursday, November 9, 2023
Title to be announced
Aristotelis Tsirigos, Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of Medicine and Pathology;
Director, New York University Applied Bioinformatics Laboratories & Co-director, Precision Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Title to be announced
Amber Mosely, Ph.D.
Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Medical & Molecular Genetics
Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Indiana University School of Medicine
10:00 a.m. Friday, November 17, 2023*
The impact of selfish genetic cheating on mammalian reproduction and speciation
Takashi Akera, Ph.D.
Stadtman Investigator
Chromosome Dynamics and Evolution
National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
*Note special time and day
Thursday, December 7, 2023
Title to be announced
Dae-Kyum Kim, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Oncology
Department of Cancer Genetics and Genomics
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo
Recent Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis Seminar Speakers, Spring 2023
Thursday, January 5, 2023
Targeting latent metastatic cells
Srinivas Malladi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Pathology
UT Southwestern
Thursday, January 19, 2023
Integrative approaches to enhance cancer immune response
Shengqing (Stan) Gu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Hematopoetic Biology & Malignancy
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Thursday, February 2, 2023
DNA synthesis by DNA polymerases: Structure, fidelity control, and drug inhibition
Yang Gao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, BioSciences
CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research
Rice University
Monday, February 13, 2023
1:30 p.m.*
Endogenous retrotransposons and the viral mimicry response during early tumorigenesis
Charles Ishak, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre - University Health Network
Toronto, Canada
*Note special day and time
Thursday, February 16, 2023
Causes and consequences of genome instability in B lymphocytes
Jacqueline Barlow, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
University of California Davis
Thursday, March 2, 2023
Regulation of chromatin structure at promoters by chromatin remodelers, modifiers and chaperones
Chhabi Govind, Ph.D.
Professor, Biological Sciences
Oakland University
Thursday, April 6, 2023
Protein arginine methylation in transcription and RNA metabolism
Yanzhong (Frankie) Yang, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics
Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
10:00 a.m.*
Chromatin remodelers lost in translation
Capucine Van Rechem, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Pathology - Research
Stanford University
*Note special day and time
POSTPONED
Thursday, April 20, 2023
Title to be announced
Elizabeth Snyder, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Animal Sciences
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Brain Tumor Center Distinguished Lecture
Title to be announced
Joseph Costello, Ph.D.
Professor, Neurological Surgery, UCSF
Thursday, May 4, 2023
Massively parallel reporter assays to decipher variant function
Hyejung Won, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Genetics and the UNC Neuroscience Center
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Monday, May 8, 2023
11:00 a.m.*
Modeling and Characterizing WOREE Syndrome: from Basic Science to Translational Medicine
Rami Aqeilan, Ph.D.
Professor, Immunology & Cancer Research
Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer Research
Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem
Adjunct Professor, The Ohio State University & University of Vermont Cancer Center
*Note special day and time
Thursday, May 18, 2023
Poly(ADP-ribose) biology in biomolecular condensates in health and disease: From single-molecule biophysics to chemical proteomics
Anthony K. L. Leung, Ph.D., MBioch
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Professor, School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
10:00 a.m.*
DNA methylation:molecular mechanisms for maintenance and transcriptional repression
Jiemin Wong, Ph.D.
Professor and Dean, School of Life Sciences
East China Normal University,Shanghai China
*Note special day and time
Thursday, June 15, 2023
Gene regulatory network wiring and rewiring in disease
Juan Fuxman Bass, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biology
Boston University